The Marion Star
(top) Present-day logo (bottom) November 2, 1910 front page | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | USA Today Co., formerly Gannett |
| Founder(s) | Sam, Willis and Harry Hume |
| Editor | Tom Graser |
| Founded | 1877 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 163 E. Center St., Ste. 100 Marion, Ohio 43302 United States |
| Circulation | 13,929 Afternoon 13,790 Sunday |
| ISSN | 1087-7495 |
| OCLC number | 18114262 |
| Website | marionstar.com |
The Marion Star (formerly known as The Marion Daily Star and founded as the Marion Daily Pebble) is a daily newspaper in Marion, Ohio. The paper is owned by USA Today Co., formerly the Gannett Newspaper organization. It was founded in 1877 by Sam Hume and, in its early years, was so unprofitable that it became insolvent in 1884. After the business was put up for auction at a sheriff's sale, it was purchased by Warren G. Harding, future president of the United States of America. Harding made the newspaper commercially successful and owned it until he sold the business to Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, who later founded Brush-Moore Newspapers, in 1923, two months before his death. The Star was acquired by Thomson Newspapers in 1967 and the Gannett Company in 2000.